# Urinating twitch **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-twitch/160220 "2003-03-10T04:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SonOfArizona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SonOfArizona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SonOfArizona)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-twitch/160220/1 "2003-03-10T04:01:14Z")
Something I have always wondered… almost everytime I take a leak I do a little involuntary shake, like a little twitch that runs through my body real quick. I’m sure I am not the only guy who gets this, in fact I recently watched Dumb and Dumber and Jim Carrey does it when he’s emptying himself into the beer bottles in the dogvan. So what is the reason for this? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-twitch/160220/2 "2003-03-10T04:05:47Z")
Search the boards for “pee shiver”. There was a big long thread on it a while back. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-twitch/160220/3 "2003-03-10T04:10:40Z")
Cecil speaks on [Piss Shiver](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_225.html) (a search of the SDMB archives for that will bring you a lot of discussion as well). ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/urinating-twitch/160220/4 "2003-03-10T04:26:52Z")
That previous post was brought to you by **pee p this** We will now take a short break… be right back… 😃